What Do You Think about Patents?

http://twitter.com/chrispirillo - http://facebook.com/chrispirillo - http://chris.pirillo.com - Holding a patent is your way of holding on to insurance. It's not so much that you'd want to enforce it - it's that you can use it as leverage. It's basically a weapon in a peeing contest. Right now, some companies can't do certain things because of patents. Their hands are completely tied. What is likely to happen is that Apple will allow HTC to do certain things, and HTC will reciprocate to Apple by allowing them to do other things. http://live.pirillo.com